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Writing Block Blues
Aug. 23rd, 2011 08:43 pmBlah.
Here I am, I get on LiveJournal to check out other fanfiction sites, and maybe find a new spot for some of my fanfictions, and I've got major writer's blah.
I just feel a littel burned out, I guess. I wrote several fanfictions for video games, and then ran out of inspiration when I started traveling and did not get to watch my kids playing video games. Then the Transformers RotF came out, and it had so many plot holes it BEGGED for fanfiction. That really got me going. How much? Between August of 2009 to July 2011, I wrote 369,239 words of Transformers fanfiction. It helped that I am now at home.
That is not counting that I took November 2010 to write a NANO challenge novel (now edited down to only 36,000 words and no longer a novel, sadly) and 34000 words in original fiction short stories, several of which are in short story contests as I have not yet gotten up the nerve to send any in for publication. Maybe I should post them here and get critiques. Just a thought.
Hmmm. Added together, that's 439239 words, not too very far from half a million. Until I wrote it down I did not realize how much I had done.
The thing is, I don't want to take too much of a break. I like writing. I enjoy the discipline of crafting a story. I go to a writer's workshop so I can get feedback on my original fiction, because to know if a story is getting boring, it takes an audience. I knew the story in my head; I need to know if it's coming across. On fanfiction.net, I do get reviews- and let me tell you, getting an enthusiatic review will keep you writing! I have also gotten a little constructive criticism, but really, not enough- except when I don't get hits or reviews, or people don't favorite. I guess that's feedback of a kind.
I do want to keep writing original fiction. I have created one world, and I'll keep writing on that for a time, I think. I do have an idea crawling through my head on a new facfiction based on the last movie- an AU where Megatron dies, Sentinal rules, Optimus is in stasis with all of the other Autobots but Ratchet, Carly is being kept as Dylan's mistress, and Sam hid, only to be swept up in a press gang and sent to Cybertron to work in one of the factories, where a Cybertronian finds him and takes him to Sentinel, who has been looking for him for some time- but not for the reason Sam thinks at first.
Well, time will tell if the creative juices will churn enough to throw up another story soon. I did just finish a short one this week, so maybe I'm not being as lazy as I think.
Here I am, I get on LiveJournal to check out other fanfiction sites, and maybe find a new spot for some of my fanfictions, and I've got major writer's blah.
I just feel a littel burned out, I guess. I wrote several fanfictions for video games, and then ran out of inspiration when I started traveling and did not get to watch my kids playing video games. Then the Transformers RotF came out, and it had so many plot holes it BEGGED for fanfiction. That really got me going. How much? Between August of 2009 to July 2011, I wrote 369,239 words of Transformers fanfiction. It helped that I am now at home.
That is not counting that I took November 2010 to write a NANO challenge novel (now edited down to only 36,000 words and no longer a novel, sadly) and 34000 words in original fiction short stories, several of which are in short story contests as I have not yet gotten up the nerve to send any in for publication. Maybe I should post them here and get critiques. Just a thought.
Hmmm. Added together, that's 439239 words, not too very far from half a million. Until I wrote it down I did not realize how much I had done.
The thing is, I don't want to take too much of a break. I like writing. I enjoy the discipline of crafting a story. I go to a writer's workshop so I can get feedback on my original fiction, because to know if a story is getting boring, it takes an audience. I knew the story in my head; I need to know if it's coming across. On fanfiction.net, I do get reviews- and let me tell you, getting an enthusiatic review will keep you writing! I have also gotten a little constructive criticism, but really, not enough- except when I don't get hits or reviews, or people don't favorite. I guess that's feedback of a kind.
I do want to keep writing original fiction. I have created one world, and I'll keep writing on that for a time, I think. I do have an idea crawling through my head on a new facfiction based on the last movie- an AU where Megatron dies, Sentinal rules, Optimus is in stasis with all of the other Autobots but Ratchet, Carly is being kept as Dylan's mistress, and Sam hid, only to be swept up in a press gang and sent to Cybertron to work in one of the factories, where a Cybertronian finds him and takes him to Sentinel, who has been looking for him for some time- but not for the reason Sam thinks at first.
Well, time will tell if the creative juices will churn enough to throw up another story soon. I did just finish a short one this week, so maybe I'm not being as lazy as I think.
